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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 9
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 125. Here I desire the Reader to take notice,
1. That even then when the Pope was advanced to his Kingly greatness, yet as the Eastern Empire was far from obeying him, so even that one Prince that set him up, and defended him, with his Doctors and Counsellors, were far from thinking him Infallible, 1but reproved him, and judged him as superstitious for Image-worship, and were not herein ruled by him.
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2. And judge whether most Bishops would not have judged accordingly, if they had had but the same countenance from Princes, as the Bishops in the East and these now had?
3. And judge with what Face the Militant Doctors of Rome do pretend, that all the world was then subject to the judgment of the Pope, and bid us name any Churches that rejected it, when East and West so far rejected it as is here confessed, even when they were grown so high, yea and Councils as well as Popes?